It’s been used to mark gang turf and as a form of political dissent. Graffiti has been a central part of Los Angeles for generations ... But L.A.’s graffiti culture is in the midst of a ...

Originating in the 1980s in Los Angeles, California, by refugees who were fleeing ... the United States to Central America ...

Townsend speaks with Business Insider about his experience as a gang member, the culture of the Bloods ... Avenue faction of the Bloods gang in Los Angeles for 27 years. He became a member ...

He is now the executive director of Homies Unidos and is a violence-prevention worker and expert on gang culture. He speaks with Business Insider about the Los Angeles Police Department ...

Hernandez was an at-risk student surviving on the streets of Los Angeles and engulfed in gang culture and deep poverty. He ultimately achieved his educational and professional dreams through ...

But misrepresentation of the culture in entertainment and media has often associated ... played by Richard Yñiguez tried to ...

"I grew up in gang culture," he told the Los Angeles Times in a 2018 interview. "We dealt with death, with murder. It was like living in a war zone, where people die on these blocks and everybody ...

Jones' publicist, Arnold Robinson, says he died Sunday night at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, surrounded by ...

There is tons of history on the baseball cap, what was once just a piece of the uniform now viewed as a fashionable wardrobe ...

Some of today's taggers are leveraging larger audiences on social media and higher-profile targets to make a name for ...

But misrepresentation of the culture in entertainment and media ... tried to avoid getting lured into the violent street gangs of East Los Angeles. Lowriding vehicles and the lowrider “cholo ...